Murtad, sort of
From a story in Jerusalem Post yesterday. BERLIN – The German passenger aboard the Irene catamaran that tried to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza last month appears to have invented her conversion to Judaism, Berlin’s ‘Der Tagesspiegel’ newspaper reported on Tuesday. The German passenger is Edith Lutz. The Irene catamaran carried nine passengers and crew … Continue reading
Name them babies ‘Rosmah’ lah
Back in January, a grateful Haitian mother named her son ‘Israel’ — the first baby delivered in the IDF field hospital. The hospital was the only one of its kind set up at the Port-au-Prince earthquake disaster area. Read here about an orphaned Haitian teenager getting a new pair of legs at a Tel Aviv … Continue reading
Don’t bluff lah! KL where got poor people one
Pix above: Holiday resort in Gaza (Source: al-Ahram/Egyptian media) Poverty in our capital city Kuala Lumpur has made international headlines; the news item was in India Times online aggregation. Segambut parliamentarian Lim Lip Eng told a press conference yesterday that he recently received written answers to his question from both Najib Razak and Federal Territories … Continue reading
Look who’s talking? It’s Mahathir, the selective amnesiac
(1) Mahathir Mohamad is claiming credit for his Perdana Global Peace Organisation as the body responsible for floating the idea that a flotilla should sail to Gaza. In his blog posting today, ‘Genocide – the destruction of an identity’, he also wrote: “… Israeli commandos attacked and killed nine Turkish aid workers on the Mavi … Continue reading
Palestinians enjoy more expensive holidays than your average Kedahan or Sabahan
UPDATED: For more photos, see ‘Cuti-cuti Gaza‘. An article in the July, 2010 issue of Palestinian newspaper Al-Safeer aliqtisadi reported on a statistical report released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics regarding domestic and outbound tourism the previous year. The article said the bureau had conducted a specialized household survey with a sample of … Continue reading
The best place for Polis Di Raja Malaysia
LAT pix — Sounlove Zamor and her sister By Hartal MSM Israel was one of the first on the ground after the devastating Haiti earthquake in January. She dispatched a 220-personnel emergency rescue-and-response team as well as set up a high-tech field hospital staffed with 40 doctors, 25 nurses and paramedics. Najib Razak sent Haiti … Continue reading
Mysinchew trying to outdo Utusan in Perkasa-ish posturing
A senior Chinese journalist is giving Perkasa a run for their money. In our posting yesterday, we wrote: “When the Chinese decide to muscle in on a hitherto Malay franchise, they must — as always — show they can do it louder and better. These Chinese, for example, went to great lengths in shouting “me, … Continue reading
Pictures: How Gaza celebrated last Raya Korban
The pix above and below were lifted from Palestine News Agency (Wafa), which is a Palestinian Territory news agency covering ‘national news’ and owned by the Palestinian National Authority. Other photos were featured in our earlier postings (click to view): Gaza posh hotels Shopping mall Restaurant/club, swimming pool, supermarket
Sign that bumi quota will be scrapped
AP pix: New shopping mall opened in Gaza on July 17, 2010. “The mall is being widely featured in media throughout the Arab world, for example here but why the continuing silence from Western media who subscribe to AP …?” Tom Gross/Mideast Dispatch UPDATED: Photos of the Gaza hotels recommended for the Datin Seri’s stay … Continue reading
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Mercedes on the roads/VIPs on cargo deck
Posted by hartalmsm on August 6, 2010 · 1 Comment
Pix taken from IMEMC (July 9, 2010). The International Middle East Media Center is a Palestinian organization. The purpose of the Gaza flotilla was to break Israel’s naval blockade. Writing in the Gisborne Herald today, renowned scientist Dr Rodney Brooks said the blockade was only partial, and hence did not precipitate any “humanitarian crisis” as … Continue reading →
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